Limonium sieberi
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Limonium sieberi is a species of the genus beach Lilac ( Limonium ) in the family of plumbaginaceae (Plumbaginaceae). The specific epithet honors the Austrian botanist Franz Wilhelm Sieber .
features
Limonium sieberi is a perennial subshrub that reaches heights of 20 to 45 centimeters. The plant is smooth, barely warty and gray to blue-green. The stem is flexible. Axillary leaf rosettes are not present. The leaves measure 20 to 30 (45) × 3 to 11 millimeters and are thin, oblong to obverse-shaped, spatulate, blunt, rounded or prickly.
The ears have 2 to 3 usually one to two-flowered, rarely to four-flowered spikelets per centimeter. The inner supporting sheet is 4.5 to 6 millimeters in size. The calyx is hairy when pressed and 6 to 8 millimeters in size. The crown is purple.
The flowering period extends from May to July.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 43 or 51.
Occurrence
Limonium sieberi is endemic to Greece with partial areas on the north coast of Crete, in Laconia in the southeast of the Peloponnese and on Euboea . The name has also been misused for similar clans, both within and outside of Greece. The species grows on sandy and rocky coasts.
literature
- Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 , p. 226 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Limonium sieberi at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Salvatore Brullo, Matthias Erben: The genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in Greece. In: Phytotaxa. Volume 240, 2016, pp. 97-99, DOI: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.240.1.1 .